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Javik 3,949

I can only see this being a niche product, sales are hardly likely to be explosive.

The cheaper chromebooks will be great for people that want to just do a bit of basic web usage but the CB Pixel simply won't sell at that price. More competition can only be a good thing for consumers however

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tsupersonic 1,311

tsupersonic 1,311

Most people, including myself, who get and use a Chromebook regularly love them. They are so drop dead simple to use. They are generally problem free. And for people who live online, like me, there is generally do difference from using Windows or Linux.

That right there is a pro and a major con. The fact that you're limited to running apps exclusively on their web store is terrible by design. Personally, I don't see the point of Chromebooks - you can't run any of the apps you'd need/want. I'd rather do it the way I do it - buy a 11.6" netbook (I got the Asus S200E - Core i3/4GB RAM/128 GB SSD) with Windows 8 - just use cloud services, and use any application you want to run.

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techbeck 4,809

Not everyone uses the same programs as everyone else and needs a bunch of extra hardware/software. Those people would use a Chromebook. A Chromebook wouldnt be for me either since I do more....but there is a small market for it. The initial report that CBs only sold 500k was inaccurate. Acer alone has sold around 500k CBs and that doesnt account for Samsung and HP.

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tsupersonic 1,311

Not everyone uses the same programs as everyone else and needs a bunch of extra hardware/software. Those people would use a Chromebook. A Chromebook wouldnt be for me either since I do more....but there is a small market for it. The initial report that CBs only sold 500k was inaccurate. Acer alone has sold around 500k CBs and that doesnt account for Samsung and HP.

Thats a netbook? Anyway, the S200E is twice as expensive as the Chromebook.

Not really, the S200E was on sale for $399...Chromebooks go for $249? So, for a $150 more, I'd rather have a fully functional computer, touchscreen, and will outperform any chromebook (except Pixel). I call it a netbook, some people consider it an ultraportable, call it whatever you want.

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vcfan 2,337

vcfan 2,337

Not everyone uses the same programs as everyone else and needs a bunch of extra hardware/software. Those people would use a Chromebook. A Chromebook wouldnt be for me either since I do more....but there is a small market for it. The initial report that CBs only sold 500k was inaccurate. Acer alone has sold around 500k CBs and that doesnt account for Samsung and HP.

So, how big a market is this anyway? Acer recently made a public statement saying that 5-10% of its U.S. PC shipments are Chromebooks these days. My friends at IDC supplied Acer?s most recent four quarters of U.S. data, and although Acer?s unit shipments are off by double digits ? almost 50% in 4Q12 ? they still managed to put 4.1 million units into the market during the last year.

Okay, so 10% of 4.1 million is 410,000, and 5% is 205,000. Chromebooks start at $199. The latest Acer C710-2055 is available now in U.S. retail and from authorized resellers for $279.99. So, let?s make $240 an average price (because we don?t have enough information to weight the model any other way than a linear average). A little multiplication and we have annualized sales of $49.2-98.4 million. Not a princely sum, but enough to take care of a few of Acer?s bills.

first of all, that %5-%10 figure is AFTER they released the C7 in November 2012.

Acer, one of Google's Chrome OS hardware partners, has reported that Chromebooks accounted for 5% to 10% of the company's U.S. computer shipments since the company released its C7 Chromebook in November.

IDC's preliminary estimate for Acer's U.S. PC shipments during Q4 2012 is 803,000

So this is the number you need to use to determine how much %5 and %10 are. %10 is 80,000 and %5 is 40,000. And since the C7 was released in November, you're looking at only close to half a quarter,so these numbers are actually even smaller. maybe 20k-40k.

The arcile says "according to Taiwan-based notebook ODMs and vendors" There is no proof/stats/anything to back this up. Samsung has not released sales numbers either and neither has HP while Acer stated a very rough estimate on what they sell. Wont know exactly for sure unless sales numbers are released. Just speculation at this point and no one is correct until figures are given.

The arcile says "according to Taiwan-based notebook ODMs and vendors" There is no proof/stats/anything to back this up. Samsung has not released sales numbers either and neither has HP while Acer stated a very rough estimate on what they sell. Wont know exactly for sure unless sales numbers are released. Just speculation at this point and no one is correct until figures are given.

youre the one that said 500k isn't accurate,then you posted a reference to some guy who doesn't know math,and claimed acer alone sold 500k. I used the exact same figures he used,and that you referenced,and information from IDC,and concluded that the real number is 20k-40k, not 500k. I never said this is proof,im just responding to your post claiming the number is higher than 500k,thats all.

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Growled 3,880

It all depends on Google. So far, they have done little to promote the Chrome OS.

I think because it's early days for Chrome OS. The OS is a little over two years old. I think they are trying to figure out where they want to take this and how to get there. I suspect down the road somewhere we will see Android integration of some sort. I suspect that native client will be much better and we'll see HTML 5 everywhere. Online apps will get much better. Heck, some of them are excellent now. I think Google is just waiting for the web to catch up with their vision.

Getting this into a lot of schools is definitely a good idea. The kids that use this in school will be comfortable using this when they get home too. And parents won't feel bad about buying them a $199 Chromebook either. If something happened to mine I'd buy another in a heartbeat.

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alphamale 15

i would buy it now if i did not have so many laptops/desktops. the downside to me was no scanning and i think i have that figured out by using a document camera. i gotta be able to fill up that terabyte of storage. i still have a file cabinet that needs processing.

a nice piece of hardware that can do basic stuff. usually the basics are covered by a $250 computer, here i have some computer bling. i get the document camera working as well as a pdf i will buy. and with a working file manager i would buy right now and work on the doc camera as i had time.